(That's a massive puppy!)
And this is MaSSyPupX (yes, there were some double-takes at the screen at my weekly meetup of dyslexic and dysgraphic scientists).
This probably sounds silly to a lot of people, but I have friends and collaborators who can't install anything at all on their PCs themselves. When FragPipe or SpectroNaut rolls out yet another super powerful upgrade they have to call (and sometimes pay) someone to come out and upgrade that PC for them. I have control over my PCs for now - but not the HPC - so I have to be careful about mismatching the software versions on each.
I haven't checked it out yet, but MaSSyPupX appears to allow you to circumvent this completely by allowing you to have an external drive with all your pre-installed and pre-configured software on it. Plug it up and run. Now....even with a lot of external drives being super fast SSD, I expect some latency issues due to USB transfer speeds, but I know those are also improving. Even if it isn't ideal may be a solution to a serious problem or two some people out there have.
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